#Nutcracker Museum

[treasurechestmemories]

Leavenworth Washington Sleigh Ride Nutcracker Museum Day 3

[bevanne46]

A little history of nutcrackers from the Nutcracker Museum, in Leavenworth, WA

[beingjellybeans]

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[lesbian-salamander]

[tothechaos]

ever since i started doing card tricks people in my life have had. uh. mixed reactions. my mom gets annoyed because she cant figure them out, one of my friends literally walked away from me calling me a freak, and another saw me holding a deck of cards and grinning as he came out of the back room at work and just went "oh god" with a look of abject despair on his face. but i will never stop. because it makes me laugh. also if i can find drunk enough people i dont think i ever have to pay for drinks at a bar again

[caterpillarinacave]

Yeah okay I should go to bed

[jonathanbyersphd]

Writing 6k words in 2-3 days sure is a fun way to aggravate carpal tunnel

[marylizabetha]

Ghibli Museum

I got to see, The Day I Bought A Star, in the theatre.

Map of the Museum

I love the Nutcracker so I was so excited to find these post cards. I'm going to frame them and put them out at Christmas.

I also got this sketchbook and kept my guide and movie ticket, plus the cute wrapping paper from the gift shop.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FindsFriday: a squirrel-shaped nutcracker (ha!) & rabbit-shaped chocolate mold, found hiding behind doors in little cubby-holes of the “Animals on the Loose: A Mercer Menagerie” children’s room at Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle. Cute! Late 19th-early 20th c.?

[lostandbackagain]

I bought new clothes like an hour ago and I'm already pissed that they're not here

[retrobr]

merry early christmas and happy holidays!

soo this is jedediah is a christmas ornament. i wanted to post it exactly on christmas day but i'm really excited to show it so i decided to do it now.

a little bonus and some of my ideas based on this concept under the cut :3

i have three aus based on this concept:

christmas ornament!jedediah and nutcracker!octavius.

the basic natm setting, but jedediah wasn't initially a museum exhibit and instead was a christmas tree toy that was hung on a museum christmas tree. he came to life along with other exhibits.

somewhat like a human au, in which octavius is a human and jed is a christmas ornament. he bought jed, who comes to life at night, in an old vintage shop, and hung him on his christmas tree. jed comes to life right on the first night.

let me know if someone got interested in any of those ideas <3

[shinyzango]

I've been looking through google to answer an ask , and suddenly, randomly, I discover this one random article from 2015.

WHERE WERE YOU MY WHOLE LIFE???

I was already aware of the exhibition, but I've never seen so many photos and content about it!

Just, GAAAAA I WANT TO SEE IT MYSELF SO BAD WHY DID IT HAD TO BE A LIMITED TIME EXHIBITION AT THE GHIBLI MUSEUM 😭

[girlbloggercher]

daily december activities

you can stop at day 25, but some people stay in the xmas spirit for the whole month. it all depends on you!

day 1: go see the nutcracker (or you can watch it on youtube!)

day 2: decorate a gingerbread house

day 3: create a christmas playlist and play it while cleaning

day 4: plan a secret santa with your friends (or you can give gifts spontaneously)

day 5: watch vlogmas videos on youtube

day 6: have some hot cocoa!

day 7: watch a christmas film or rewatch a christmas episode of your favorite show

day 8: have a spa day!

day 9: do some baking with your family

day 10: plan out your new years resolutions if you haven't already

day 11: do something that makes you feel like a kid again

day 12: read a book, it doesn't have to be winter themed

day 13: watch victoria's secret christmas shows

day 14: go shopping for winter clothes

day 15: take a nice, warm bath

day 16: get out your journal and write about the best christmas gift you've ever received and why

day 17: make a vision board for the new year

day 18: wear christmas pajamas

day 19: perform an act of kindness

day 20: attend a christmas event

day 21: write christmas cards

day 22: play a video game

day 23: drive around and look at everyone's decorations!

day 24: go caroling

day 25: you can't spell 'christmas' without 'Christ', so do a bible study!

day 26: donate anything you don't need anymore

day 27: drink eggnog

day 28: go to a museum

day 29: move your body

day 30: take a photo of all your christmas gifts

day 31: do whatever you want!

[princelylove]

How many yanderes do you think are interested in the performance arts? Ballet, opera, etc? What about fine arts, would they like going to museums? Not many in jojo! It's different when it's your interest, though.

It can be a reward when you're good. Or a punishment, if you aren't interested in sitting through a three hour performance in a language you don't speak.

Josuke's pretty interested in rich people's hobbies, I'm sure he'd love to indulge you. He gets all giddy the day of- does he look like he belongs here? He's smiling too much to be a regular, and he got you both a booth seat with a partially obstructed view, but you're here! You're on a fancy date with him! Post his arm on your story.

Pannacotta can't say he's fond of the 'fine' arts. He didn't like them in his childhood, and he doesn't like them now. Beg as much as you want, he's not taking you there. Why can't you be interested in something that doesn't remind him of his childhood? He'd let you do an actual sport before he'd let you go see the nutcracker, but a museum would be fine.

God, spare Joseph. Truly, have mercy. He doesn't have the attention span. He'd start bugging you five minutes in. Why on Earth would you play footsie with someone while someone's dying on stage, and whine when they obviously don't pay attention to you? Joseph doesn't care about acting out in public, he'll hang onto you the entire time you attempt to peruse the gallery. Don't ignore him, or he'll get LOUD.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

I wish the Wales wouldn’t react to the internet.

After that photo scandal, so many articles, real or fake, discussing their state of mind with Rebecca English leading the charge.

Then this morning, a sanctioned article about Kate being spotted at Windsor Farm shop.

Internet/ media response: pics or we don’t believe you

This afternoon: a sanctioned pap pic of the Wales at said farm shop!!!

Internet response: that’s not Kate…..ugh. William knows that once you give an inch, the media/ Internet takes a mile.

I wish he’d never responded to the internet in the first place or to just let it be following Kate’s apology because clearly the internet/ media is a ravenous beast that will never, ever be satisfied. 

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I disagree.

I haven’t followed it too closely but this doesn’t strike me as William and Kate reacting to the internet. They’re just living their normal lives and it’s the people around them who are talking to the media. Possibly they feel protective of one of their own being so targeted and harassed.

The general public talking to the media about William and Kate or leaking where they are/sold their pictures of them has happened before. Some of those instances:

When William, Kate, and the kids had a pub lunch picnic.

When Kate was stuck in traffic on a bridge, she and Louis stepped out of the car to look at the bridge traffic. 

When Kate was grocery shopping.

When Kate chaperones field trips or takes the kids to museums.

When Kate took George and Charlotte shopping.

When Kate took Charlotte to The Nutcracker.

When William and Kate went to a school sports thing for the kids and a fellow parent took their picture (Kate was wearing flared jeans that were wet - I can’t find the picture anymore).

When William has gone to George’s football games and took pictures with the kids.

So because this is not an isolated incident of them being spotted within their community and pictures/video leaking out, I don’t see it as a strategic response to the internet or to the media.

It is strategic in the sense that after about a month of wildly intense speculation, there’s finally “evidence” of Kate being out, about, and around in her community, but it’s not like she’s come out of hiding. She’s been doing stuff around her home in her community. It’s just the first time there were paparazzi there that caught her, which suggests more “fox in the hen house” than a papwalk - someone in the community blabbed (which has happened before) and/or the paps knew that Kate would resurface somewhere so all they had to do was wait and bide their time.

Maybe that makes me a chump. I don’t really care. William and Kate have never done this kind of papwalk before. I find it very hard to think they’d start doing it now, especially when you consider all the other controversies they’ve gotten embroiled in and how easily they could’ve redirected the media with a papwalk. 

[shakespearefreak]

So I know it's summer, just about as far from December as we can get, but I'm too excited about my new acquisition to wait! I've been looking for the November/December 1993 issue of American Girl Magazine for a couple years now. I found one on Mercari a while back and added it to my Liked items, but it was $25, and I just couldn't quite justify spending that amount on a magazine, no matter how old it was or how many fond memories I had of it. Anyways, I got an offer from the seller for $16.37 a few days ago and decided to pull the trigger.

It was pouring rain on and off all day today, and I wasn't able to check the mail right away when I got the notification that it had been delivered. I live in an apartment building, and the front door is locked, so delivery drivers usually just leave packages outside. I was so anxious, picturing a cardboard envelope sitting there for hours, getting soaked and ruining the contents. But when I finally checked the mail, I discovered the seller had sent it in a watertight, plastic bubble mailer! The package had some mud and water on the outside, but the magazine itself was absolutely perfect. I got the newest AG catalog in my mailbox today, too, and I compared the two... the 30-year-old magazine was as bright and crisp as the brand-new catalog!

Anyways, I (very carefully) paged through it right away, rediscovering my old favorite articles and stories that I'd read and re-read so many times as a kid, my original magazine had fallen apart: an article on the Colleen Moore's incredible miniature fairy castle at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry (which I later got to see myself in person!); Samantha's short story "The Mystery of the Black Pearls," in which Nellie (pre-adoption) is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her employer; an article about the Nutcracker Ballet, its young stars, and behind-the-scenes special effects magic that had me dancing around my house, dreaming of playing Clara like the article's subjects (who were just a little older than me!); and Hans Christian Anderson's lovely but tragic tale "The Little Match Girl," with gorgeous illustrations by Rachel Isadora (it never occurred to me until today how strange it was to include a story about a little girl freezing to death in a magazine for little girls)... I was surprised to feel tears prick my eyes as I went through. Anyway, I'm SO HAPPY, it was worth every penny. Now I just need to buy a clear display envelope to put it in so it stays as beautiful as it is now! 💖